The LibreOffice Documentation Team has published the Writer Guide for version 6.0. It is available for free download (PDF) from the LibreOffice website or can be purchased from the Friends of OpenDocument store at Lulu.com.
Aug 21 2018
Writer 6.0 Guide published
Aug 10 2018
LibreOffice 6.1 released
The Document Foundation has announced LibreOffice 6.1, with a significant number of new and improved features:
- Colibre, a new icon theme for Windows based on Microsoft’s icon design guidelines, which makes the office suite visually appealing for users coming from the Microsoft environment;
- A reworked image handling feature, which is significantly faster and smoother thanks to a new graphic manager and an improved image lifecycle, with some advantages also when loading documents in Microsoft proprietary formats;
- The reorganization of Draw menus with the addition of a new Page menu, for better UX consistency across the different modules;
- A major improvement for Base, only available in experimental mode: the old HSQLDB database engine has been deprecated, though still available, and the new Firebird database engine is now the default option (users are encouraged to migrate files using the migration assistant from HSQLDB to Firebird, or by exporting them to an external HSQLDB server);
- Significant improvements in all modules of LibreOffice Online, with changes to the user interface to make it more appealing and consistent with the desktop version;
- An improved EPUB export filter, in terms of link, table, image, font embedding and footnote support, with more options for customizing metadata;
- Online Help pages have been enriched with text and example files to guide the users through features, and are now easier to localize.
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2018/08/08/libreoffice-6-1/
Feb 21 2018
Writer 5.4 Guide published
The LibreOffice Documentation Team has published the Writer Guide for version 5.4. It is available for free download (PDF) from the LibreOffice website or can be purchased from the Friends of OpenDocument store at Lulu.com.
Aug 21 2017
Getting Started Guide 5.2
The LibreOffice Documentation Team has published the Getting Started Guide for version 5.2. It is available for free download (PDF) from the LibreOffice website or can be purchased from the Friends of OpenDocument store at Lulu.com.
May 13 2016
2016 LibreOffice Conference
In 2016, LibreOffice Conference will be hosted by the Faculty of Information Technology at Brno University of Technology, Czech Republic, and organized by OpenAlt, from September 7 to 9.
Details of Call for Papers, open until July 15, 2016, are available at:
https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2016/04/08/libreoffice-brno-conference-call-for-paper/.
Registration for the conference is open at:
http://conference.libreoffice.org/2016/registration/.
May 13 2016
LibreOffice 5.1.3 released
The Document Foundation (TDF) announced LibreOffice 5.1.3, the third minor release of the LibreOffice 5.1 family, supporting Google Drive remote connectivity on GNU/Linux and MacOS X.
LibreOffice 5.1.3 is targeted at technology enthusiasts, early adopters
and power users. For more conservative users, and for enterprise
deployments, TDF suggests the “still” version: LibreOffice 5.0.6.
LibreOffice 5.1.3 is available for download from http://www.libreoffice.org/download/libreoffice-fresh/.
Mar 22 2016
New book: Designing with LibreOffice
Bruce Byfield’s much-anticipated book, Designing with LibreOffice has been published by Friends of OpenDocument, Inc. Read about it here or jump straight to the download/buy page to get a free PDF or buy a printed copy.
Carla Schroder, Author of The Linux Cookbook, The Linux Network Cookbook, and The Book of Audacity, says this about the book:
“Designing With LibreOffice teaches everything you need to know about document production: chapters, footnotes, citations, indexes, outlines, cross-references, incorporating images and spreadsheets, and controlling the appearance of your documents. It is well-organized and contains abundant examples, and is suitable for beginners to wizened old pros, who will probably discover things about LibreOffice that they didn’t know.”
Mar 22 2016
Getting Started with LibreOffice 5.0 published
The LibreOffice Documentation Team has published Getting Started with LibreOffice 5.0.
Free PDFs can be downloaded from The Document Foundation’s wiki.
Printed copies can be purchased here. (Published by Friends of OpenDocument Inc.)
Jun 19 2015
LibreOffice on the Mac App store, at last!
Collabora announced on 18 June 2015:
The world’s most popular Open Source Office Suite is now available on OS X via one-step install following Collabora Productivity’s launch today of two new apps in the Mac App Store. End-users can get LibreOffice on OS X with automatic updates, long-term maintenance, and optional professional support, for the first time.
For US$10 LibreOffice-from-Collabora provides the enterprise-hardened productivity suite for business and public sector, including three years of maintenance updates.
You can get it here.
For those who don’t want or need the enterprise-level product, you can get LibreOffice Vanilla free here.
Collabora also announced:
The LibreOffice Vanilla app is almost identical to the latest copy of LibreOffice Fresh by Document Foundation contributors. It comes fresh from them, to you, after packaging by Collabora, and distribution by Apple.
LibreOffice for Mac will continue to be available for free download directly from the LibreOffice website, along with versions for Windows and Linux.
Jan 27 2015
LibreOffice 4.3 Draw Guide Published
The Documentation Team has published the LibreOffice 4.3 Draw Guide.
Free PDFs can be downloaded from The Document Foundation’s wiki.
Printed copies can be purchased here. (Published by Friends of OpenDocument Inc.)